Server Appliance Kit
Abbreviated as SAK, the Server Appliance Kit, used with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server with Service Pack 2, enables OEMs to build fixed-function server appliance products based on the Microsoft Windows OS. This includes a variety of server appliances such as Web server appliances, VPN appliances, NAS appliances, or backup and recovery appliances for example.
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(n.) Abbreviated SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture is an application architecture in which all functions, or services, are defined using a description language and have invokable interfaces that are called to perform business processes. Each interaction is independent of each and every other interaction and the interconnect protocols of the communicating devices (i.e., the infrastructure components that […]
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